they estimated that about 5% of shark-on-human bites are wholly defensive, rather than sharks trying to catch their next meal. The findings should help inform shark bite prevention efforts ...

It is common to see annual fluctuations in shark-human interactions ... We hope you enjoy your next summer beach trip! For those looking for more shark content, “Shark Week” on CNN sister ...

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (WSAV) — Hilton Head Island Fire Rescue responded to a medical emergency involving a possible shark ...

One of the scientists involved in tracking Contender - the biggest great white shark ever recorded by researchers in the ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. A baby shark found dead off the coast of Indonesia has a striking mutation that gives ...

After investigating 121 alleged shark-human interactions worldwide last year ... and so then it's comparable one year to the next because we're dealing with apples-to-apples comparisons," he ...

News of a shark attack or bite is always unsettling. A young swimmer was was airlifted from Boca Grande in Lee County on June ...

But the attacks show little consistency and it is very hard to know where a shark may strike next. Among last ... natural habitat in which there was no human provocation, which is the definition ...

This synthesis was a monumental undertaking. While not the longest ever synthesized, the Greenland shark genome is twice the length of the human one. Interestingly, most of that length is due to ...

By studying the longevity mechanisms of the Greenland shark, scientists could also gain more insight into how to potentially extend the human lifespan, the authors said. Greenland sharks grow at ...